Hager v. Shindler’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 1984 · most notably City & County of San Francisco v. Superior Court (1951), Sharon v. Sharon, 11991 (Cal. 7-17-1889) (1889)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 18 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mulford v. Le Franc · De Witt v. Hays · Shattuck v. Carson · Kinder v. Macy · Merrill v. Gorham
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cause of action does not consist in the detached or isolated fact that the deeds in question were given with the intent charged”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scholle v. Finnell“not antedate the facts in which it had its origin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scholle v. Finnell
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.